A study of zoo lions across U.S. by Dr. Bruce Patterson of The Field Museum shows that cold temperatures result in longer, thicker manes. Differences in manes are not a result of natural selection, but a flexible trait matching local weather conditions.
The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today applauded a decision today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Tibetan antelope, also known as "chiru," as an endangered species.
If you think you've got a bad boss, one who loves to chew people out, or if you work with backstabbing co-workers, be thankful you are not a wasp. If you were, chances are your nestmates might bite you to communicate that it is time for you to leave the nest and forage for the colony.
A "Red Tide" event that occurred off the coast of El Salvador late last year directly caused the deaths of some 200 sea turtles, according to test results released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other organizations.
Scientists have used the mathematics of information theory to confirm that the songs of humpback whales have their own complex syntax containing the elements of language.
Novel application of MRI leads to new tools for online digital dissection of preserved fishes from one of the world's most valuable natural history collections.
Decades of U.S. government-subsidized predator control has failed to prevent a long-term decline in the sheep industry, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
As spring gardening approaches, concern has spread about the risk of the Formosan subterranean termite moving to other states in mulch produced from Katrina and Rita debris. The termite wreaks millions of dollars of damage annually in a dozen southern states, including Louisiana.
In the first study to link social evolution to climate change, Cornell's Bryan Danforth and colleagues show that the social behavior of many sweat bees evolved simultaneously during a period of recent global warming, only 20 million to 22 million years ago.
Salamanders and the tuatara, a lizard-like animal that has lived on Earth for 225 million years, were the first vertebrates to walk and run on land, according to a recent study by Ohio University researchers.
U.M. professor Cynthia Moss has found that bats have methods for echolocating food in "clutter" that may be more complex than scientists have thought. Bats adjust their sonic pulse output to respond to information they receive from echolocation.
For centuries scientists have thought of deep-sea pelagic fish as nomadic wanderers. But new results from the ongoing Mid-Atlantic Ridge Ecosystems program have revealed that these fishes may in fact be gathering at features such as ridges or seamounts to spawn.
Marine scientists from the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and colleagues at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution investigated the issue of whether sonar can be correlated with the stranding of beaked whales, as some reports have claimed.
In an extensive study, researchers from the University of Montana, University of California - Santa Cruz, and the University of California - Davis have shown that a top predator strongly affected plants and animals at the bottom of an island food web by eating organisms that transport nutrients between ecosystems.
It may still be "king of the beasts," but the African lion's kingdom is dwindling, according to a new report released by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) that says lions have vanished from 82 percent of their historic distribution over the past several decades.
The authors of a paper in last week's Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Section B, who say their 7.9 mm-long fish from Southeast Asia is the smallest fish and vertebrate known, have failed to make note of work published last fall that describes a sexually mature, male anglerfish measuring 6.2 mm.
Killer whales, which lure gulls by setting traps, are now among the animal species known to demonstrate "cultural learning," a phenomenon in which animals of the same species learn from other members of their group.
The test complies with federal guidelines requiring that by 2007 post-harvest treated oysters must not contain more 30 Vibrio vulnificus bacterium per gram of oyster meat.
The government of Madagascar has scored a significant victory for conservation by bringing one million hectares of wild landscapes and seascapes under protection to conserve the island nation's unique fauna and flora, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
The Big Woods of Arkansas provides rare suitable habitat for the ivory-billed woodpecker, including old-growth forest that was decimated from the southern United States after the Civil War.
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